1. Assignment Objectives
Project Management Life Cycle
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
800 Words
You are a project manager attending a meeting with the other project managers in your organization's project management office (PMO). Each of you is managing projects throughout the organization. The discussion focuses on the project management life cycle elements and how your projects fall within the life cycle.
Join in the discussion by talking about the following:
- Describe the 4 elements of the project management life cycle.
- Discuss the primary activities that occur within each life cycle element.
2. Assignment Objectives
Project Management Life Cycle
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
10-13 PowerPoint slides with at least 150 words of speaker notes per slide
You are now ready to determine the project life cycle for your project portfolio management (PPM) software tool implementation. Using your knowledge of the project management life cycle, prepare a PowerPoint presentation for your project manager colleagues and your manager. The presentation will cover the project life cycle for the PPM software tool implementation and the major activities within each life cycle element.
The PowerPoint presentation should contain 10-13 slides, which includes a title slide and at least 1 reference slide. The task content of the project life cycle for your project will be comprised of at least 7 slides. These content slides should contain at least 150 words of speaker notes per slide.
Use your course materials, textbook, and Web resources to determine the project life cycle elements and the major activities for a software implementation project. For each project life cycle element, list at least 2 primary tasks related to the PPM implementation project. The presentation should be formatted according to the following:
- Slide 1: Title slide ?This contains your topic title, your name, and the course.
- Slide 2: Introduction slide ?Remember that you are the project manager and are presenting this information to other project managers and your manager. Acknowledge the audience, and mention the purpose of the presentation.
This slide should contain at least 150 words of speaker notes.
- Slides 3-9 (or more): Content slides ?Discuss the project management life cycle with your PPM software implementation project.
Each life cycle element should have at least 2 major activities or tasks of the software implementation project.
The slides should contain at least 150 words of speaker notes.
- Final slide(s): Reference slide(s) ?List your references according to the APA style.
3. Assignment Objectives
Program Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
800 words
You are attending the next weekly meeting of project managers in your organization's project management office (PMO). The discussion this week focuses on the concept of program management as it relates to project management.
Research the topic of program management in the Virtual Campus library. Based on your research in the library, answer the following questions to join in on the PMO discussion this week:
- What is the definition of program management as it relates to project management?
- What are the benefits of program management in organizations?
- What are some potential issues of managing projects using program management?
Please note: Because this is a library research assignment, more than half of your resources must come from the library. Find and cite at least 3 sources for this task.
4. Assignment Objective
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
1500 words
The project management office (PMO) director has decided to make you a program manager. You will now manage 2 related projects. The first project is the implementation of the project portfolio management (PPM) software tool that you discussed in Week 1. The second project, which relates to the first, is the implementation of strategic planning software.
Prepare a report for the PMO director that describes the specific benefits and issues for the management of the 2 related projects in the program. The report will be in Word and formatted using APA style. The report should contain the following:
- Title page with the topic title, your name, the course, and the date
- Introduction with the purpose of the report
- Content pages with the benefits of program management for your 2 projects (the PPM software implementation and the strategic planning software implementation)
- Reference list with sources in APA format
Basic APA formatting includes 1-inch margins, double-spacing throughout the paper, page numbers in the upper right-hand corner, paragraphs indented 5-7 spaces, and first-level headings centered and in bold font.
5. Objectives
Quality and Risk Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
800
The project management office (PMO) director has requested the discussion of quality management and risk management in this week's project manager meeting. The director has asked you to discuss both quality management and risk management in that meeting.
- Using the course textbooks and information from other sources, briefly discuss 3 quality management tools and techniques and 3 risk management strategies related to project management. ?The quality management tools and techniques should be those found in the following processes of project management: Plan Quality Management, Perform Quality Assurance, and Control Quality.
The risk management strategies for handling risks are located in the Plan Risk Responses process.
6. Assignment Objective
Quality and Risk Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
Conduct a detailed analysis of project status and issues; design required corrective actions; and determine resources required to implement those corrective actions.
2300 words
The project management office (PMO) director would like you to develop a quality management plan and a risk management plan for the program of one of the two software projects.
Create a project plan with the following components. Upload on MS Word document as the project plan.
1. Title page and abstract/executive summary
2. Work Breakdown Structure: MS Word
3. Activity/Network Diagram: MS Word
a. Critical Path
b. Logical relationships
c. Lead/lag
d. ES/EF/LS/LF
4. Schedule: Embed MS Project into the Word document
a. 50-65 tasks with duration, predecessors, and resources assigned
5. Budget: Embed MS Excel into the Word document
a. By work, material, cost
b. By activities - level 3
6. Change Management Plan: MS Word
a. Process
b. Form(s)
7. Communication Management Plan
a. Matrix
8. Risk Management Plan: Include numbering convention, risk identification, impact, probability, and response in the plan.
9. Quality Management Plan
10. Procurement Management Plan
a. Source Selection Criteria
b. Make-or-buy Decisions
11. Stakeholder Management Plan
a. Stakeholder register
b. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
12. References page
Basic APA formatting includes 1-inch margins, double-spacing throughout the paper, page numbers in the upper right-hand corner, paragraphs indented 5-7 spaces, and first-level headings centered and in bold font.
7. Assignment Objectives
Time & Human Resource Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
400 Words
Because you are the program manager over the project portfolio management (PPM) software tool project and the strategic planning software tool project, the project management office (PMO) director has asked you as to provide a schedule for the project. In addition, the PMO director wants you to list the job roles for the major tasks in the project and note any potential risks.
You will provide a detailed memo in the Phase 4 Individual Project. For now, you will provide an outline of the schedules for the project. For each project, supply the following in a posting to the Phase 4 Discussion Board area:
- Describe the project objective.
- List 5 major tasks.
- Identify at least 1 potential risk.
The document should be an outline similar to the following:
I. PPM Project Name
A. Project objective
B. Major Tasks
You only have to list the tasks and risk names. You will go into detail later
8. Assignment Objectives
Time & Human Resource Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
Conduct a detailed analysis of project status and issues; design required corrective actions; and determine resources required to implement those corrective actions.
1300 words
Key Assignment Draft
As a continuation of the IP3 assignment, leading into the final IP in Phase 5:
Part A - Create an execution process group section of the project plan.
Write the approach for execution to include how milestones and deliverables will be determined complete. Other topics of interest are reports and meetings anticipated.
Part B - Create a monitoring and control process group section and include adjustments to the project schedule and budget
Write a monitoring and control plan for the project. Also consider a plan to correct the project if the project becomes 10% over budget/schedule.
Write a corrective action report to indicate how to bring the project back to schedule and budget.
The reference list should be in APA format.
9. Assignment Objectives
Communications Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
400 words
Summative Discussion Board
Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 3 paragraphs on the following:
- What were the most compelling topics learned in this course?
- How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?
- What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information?
- The main post should include at least 1 reference to research sources, and all sources should be cited using APA format.
10. Assignment Objectives
Communications Management
Demonstrate appropriate application of project management tools and techniques to all phases of the project or program life cycle.
Integrate project activities and resources across projects or within a program.
Conduct a detailed analysis of project status and issues; design required corrective actions; and determine resources required to implement those corrective actions.
Produce a project plan, addressing all process groups and knowledge areas, including a report to senior management on project status at a major milestone review point.
Submit final versions of individual projects 6 and 8 with edits (from faculty comments) include the final section (additional 200-400 words):
Create a project closure document
Write a project closure plan. How are you going to close the project?